Hope Lost or Just Bored??? by Meisiekind
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Hi Friends
I am wondering if I am boring you with all the Swaziland images, but here is yet another one!!! LOL...
This was taken at one of many craft markets in Swaziland where the local folk sell their artwork to tourists. The work they do is absolutely incredible. They are so talented. In this image you can see typical African beadwork, wood carved animals, soap stone artifacts, paintings, batik, weaved baskets, tablecloths and the list goes on and on... What caught me most was the woman in the foreground of the image. I couldn't read the expression on her face or her body language and still cannot decide if it is boredom or hopelessness... I would like to think that she was just bored! I must also add that it was approximately 34 degrees Celsius at the time and very humid....
Thank you for popping in and for your very valued and appreciated comments and favs on my previous upload.
Have a wonderful weekend all...
Hugs, Carin xx
Comments (58)
flora-crassella
I would have these beautiful things also gladly! wonderful and very interesting photo!!!!
Kaartijer
Probably she was just bored... that's her daily job, and even if you're excited in the beginning, after a while you get bored just sitting and waiting for customers... and I must add the market don't look that busy! Excellent shot with plenty of colors!
jeroni
Wonderful and very creative work
mark.spooner
Excellent work.
sackrat
Outstanding !
Miska7
Very nice capture! Well done.
Chaosphoto
I would say she is surviving but not too excited by how she is doing it today. Very colourful image Carin, kind of draws you in
Susank
Not bored at all. This to is absolutly amazing it realy shows there life in swaziland.
fredster66
The colors and lighting really make this image stand out. Great life scene. Superb work!
babuci
These pictures not boring at all. You show the world many of us just read about in a paper but never straight front of us like this. The first woman is lost a hope, just gazing away arm crossed front of her chest as a sign of closed in, give up almost. The lady in a back is just simply bored, looking towards you as you taking a picture of the open stand. She is thinking of you as a customer hoping you will buy something. You don't see that in a front girl. Wonderful colorful items and they realy clever do these things.
artaddict2
Really amazing image Carin, this one has everything including the lack of enthusiasm of the ladies !!! Bravo!
kgb224
Excellent capture Carin.
DAVER2112
Such a wonderful image! So colorful! :)
Octaganoid
Very colourful, Looks like there are some nice trinkets there for sale ! Great snapshot.
alyfahmy
Really Wonderful
Darkwish
Remarkable picture!
durleybeachbum
I should be unrestrainable! Great shot!
bmac62
Wonderful photo...full of life, even if it leaves us wondering. You never know what folks are thinking. We were taking pictures of some African American women in a market very similar to this some years ago...they became agitated. Turned out they held primitive beliefs that we were stealing their souls by taking their pictures. You just never know. Bill
RoyalPhoto
Very nice shot!
jccj56
Awesome Scene!!
Fidelity2
This image is a magnificent masterpeice by you. 5+.
Mousson
Tres belle scene, couleurs magnifiques!
MrsLubner
But you see, these ladies know that what they sell is very good, are well made and what the tourist is looking for. They know the prices are high for locals but fair for tourists. To look to interested is to show a weakness in bargining and so they say - "I offer it. You take buy or you do without." I see good business women who are confident that if they leave the buyer alone they will do better than if they make themselves "visible." BTW, my grandmother bought me one of those small dolls without arms and with the billowing skirt (mine had a black, red and yellow embroided skirt and headpiece) when she went on a world tour and spent time in this area. I was only 7 then but it was my most treasured doll. I cared for it through one marriage and many years into the second. I had to leave it in a box at my parent's house one year when I moved to a smaller apartment and had no room for my doll collection (my grandmother bought me ethnic dolls from all over the world whenever she traveled) and that was the year of the great flood. Their home was totally under water. They lost everything they owned and I lost my precious African doll. I love this. I can imagine my grandmother walking through and choosing that particular doll with me in mind.
Gwyn Tyger
brings back great memories of the shops and stands I have seen in Kenya
bronwyn_lea
What amazing work they do! I am enjoying the pictures from your trip. They are fascinating!
timtripp
fantastic colors!
auntietk
Ohhhh ... just look at those textiles! That's it. Next time you go up there, I'm going with you! LOL!
MrsRatbag
What a fascinating market, I'd have spent a long, long time looking at everything. I'm not surprised Bruce left them a lot of money! Great capture!
goodoleboy
Lots of lighting effects, colors, objects and textures in this neato capture, Carin. The lady may also be distressed by the lookie-loos who wander into her establishment, walk around to see what's being featured, and then leave without making a purchase.
beachzz
i love your fotos, all of them!! This looks so familiar--I see the same looks and the same kinds of faces in Mexico, but what really hits me are the colors, the vibrant pieces and the life in their artwork!!